🎼 Beqaa: Beirut's Russian House, in cooperation with Baalbek's Russian-Lebanese Cultural Center, organized a concert, performed in the ancient Baalbek Citadel's Temple of Bacchus. Moscow's Sretensky Monastery Choir was led by Maestro Nikon Zhila.

🚨 A petrol station tanks in the town of Al-Marj in the Bekaa exploded and flames can be seen from kilometers away.

Video of the tanks.

The second truck convoy of Iranian diesel fuel is currently crossing from Syria into Lebanon.

Convoys are expected to last at least 2-3 weeks long.

Developing situation in Syria

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Footage of the fuel truck convoy with its protection.

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🇱🇧🇮🇶 More than 300,000 Iraqi tourists entered Lebanon this summer, a large number of them for "medical tourism", according to Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, the head of General Security.

South Leb: A local threatened to throw a grenade inside a petrol station in Mays Al-Jabal, over a dispute.

The hand grenade didn't explode.

⁠Speaker Nabih Berri: "The fact that the Israeli enemy concluded contracts for drilling in the disputed area in the sea, constitutes a violation or even a blow to the negotiation framework agreement. If this persists, it constitutes an aggression that represents a threat to peace."

"The reluctance of the Total/Novatek and Eni alliance to start drilling in Lebanon's Block No. 9 raises major questions about their motives."

Map of the area:

Sidon: Tensions this morning in the Palestinian refugee camp Ain Al-Hilweh, between the "Fatah movement" and the terrorist organization "Jund Al-Sham".

🚨 Beqaa: Security forces seized a truck loaded with "ammonium nitrate" in the Bednayel Plain.

A security cordon was set, awaiting the arrival of the minister of interior to the area. Investigations were initiated to uncover its origin, destination, and purpose.

⋯ Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi is now in Bednayel to check out the 20 tons of ammonium nitrate that were seized.

⋯ Interview with the minister of interior. He didn't provide details.

Note: The bags look like the traditional 50-kg ones sold to farmers. It could be an illegal sale (without license) of this farming material.

Murphy urged the Senate to follow other ways to address the fuel crisis in Lebanon.

“Hezbollah is spinning a very effective narrative about the US blockade of energy resources in the country. They’re offering ships of their own through Iran,” Sen Murphy.

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🇮🇱🇦🇪 According to Hebrew newspaper Globes, "official data show that in the period from January to July of this year, the volume of trade between Israel and the UAE amounted to 610 ⁠million dollars".

This excludes the billions of dollars of UAE investment in Israel.

Investigation on port blast:

A State Security patrol arrived to the house of former Prime Minister Hassan Diab in order to implement the subpoena issued against him.

Note: State Security knows very well he isn't in Lebanon but rather in the USA for a 4-week visit to his children.

Hebrew media:

"Halliburton will start drilling in the northern Karish field off the coast of [occupied Palestine] in 2022 and will finish in 2023. The process involves drilling 3 to 5 oil wells."

Note: Part of Karish falls in Lebanese territories.

Sidon: The Fatah movement arrested Mustafa F., inside Ain Al-Hilweh camp, who is a terrorist of Jund Al-Sham, and handed him over to the Lebanese Army Intelligence.

The Palestinian refugee camp is witnessing the displacement of some families from the area in fear of possible armed clashes.

Nitrate found in Bednayel:

One of the owners of the shipment disavows its danger:

"It was heading to a land planted with potatoes to fertilize it, and nitrogen does not exceed 29%, which means that it is suitable for agricultural fertilization."